Private In-Home and Online Japanese Tutoring in Raleigh-Durham, NC

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How can a Japanese tutor help you?

Learning Japanese is difficult no matter what language you grew up speaking, but it presents many particular challenges for those who grew up speaking, reading, and writing in English. Japanese syntax differs greatly from that found in English grammar. For instance, while English uses a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, Japanese uses a subject-object-verb word order in which the verb is most often the last word in the sentence. Furthermore, Japanese makes significant use of particles, much more than English does. Additionally, and perhaps most obviously, Japanese and English vary drastically in the way that they are each written. Whereas English uses one Latin alphabet, Japanese uses three different writing systems, none of them romanized. Introductory Japanese courses typically first teach students to write in hiragana and katakana, two phonetic Japanese writing systems. However, the introduction of Chinese characters (kanji) into one’s advanced studies can throw a significant wrench into progress with the Japanese language. Suddenly one has to use both phonetic and character-based writing systems—often in the same sentence!

Available nationwide, Varsity Tutors’ one-on-one Japanese tutoring can help you progress toward your goals of becoming fluent in this challenging language. No matter whether you are a middle school or high school student taking your first Japanese class, a college student aiming to fulfill your school’s language requirement, a business professional wanting to add fluency in Japanese to your skill set, or you want to learn the language for other reasons, our tutors can help you.

What makes Varsity Tutors’ Japanese tutoring different from other language-learning options is the degree to which we customize your tutoring experience to your particular goals, concerns, and needs. When you contact our educational directors about Japanese tutoring, they take into account your particular academic situation, current level of fluency, and preferred learning style and use these criteria to select the tutor who can best assist you in achieving your goals. When you start working with one of our tutors, he or she can begin by designing a unique learning plan for your tutoring sessions, aimed at helping you build the skills you will need for the way in which you plan to use your knowledge of Japanese. If you plan on using spoken Japanese in the workplace, for instance, your tutor can help you practice your conversational skills, provide immediate feedback on your pronunciation, and give you tips about navigating the language’s complex levels of formality. If you plan on mainly reading or writing in Japanese, your tutor can devote significant time to helping you first master the hiragana and katakana writing systems, then begin learning the thousands of kanji you will need to read and write with ease.

Our tutors are available when and where you are and are happy to travel to the location that works best in your schedule to hold your Japanese tutoring sessions. Your tutoring can take place in a branch of your local library, a nearby café, in your own home, or another location that you choose. Your tutoring can even take place online if you want it to! You also decide how often you want your Japanese tutoring sessions to be held. Our tutors can provide short-term or long-term assistance, and you can alter the frequency of your sessions to meet your needs. If you’re preparing for a big test or need to brush up on a certain category of vocabulary words, for example, it’s not problem—you can easily schedule extra sessions.

Japanese may be a difficult language to learn, but you don’t need to face the challenges it presents on your own. If you’re having difficulty learning Japanese and could use some individual help, contact Varsity Tutors today! Our directors in your area can answer any questions you may have about our Japanese tutoring and begin finding the tutor best suited to helping you with your personal language-learning goals.